Transferring mails from Thunderbird

[Stéphane Bruno]

Thanks.

I am going to try this. I have over 5 years of messages that I want to 
transfer. I'll let you know if it worked.

Stéphane

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 September 2006 03:16, Stéphane Bruno wrote:
>   
>> If  I already have mails in the new folder, will it not corrupt them ?
>>
>>     
> I assume that you have a much larger number in the old folder?  IIRC 
> Thunderbird uses mbox format, where all the messages are in one large file.  
> This is what I would do.
>
> Re-name the new folder by adding '.sav' on the filename.  To be absolutely 
> safe you may want to create a backup of the old one in the same way.  Open 
> both that file and the old one in your favourite text editor.  Copy and paste 
> the new file's contents to the end of the old one, and save the resulting 
> text file to the place and filename that your 'new' folder had.
>
> Since you have not overwritten either the new or old folder's mail you can 
> easily get back to where you were if it doesn't work, but I think it will.
>
> Anne
>   

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